Barstool Sports activities persona Frank Fleming, in any other case referred to as Frank the Tank, was hospitalized after a difficulty together with his foot led to the lack of a whole lot of blood.
“I sprung a leak,” Frank, 49, mentioned in a video shared by way of X on Thursday, August 14. “Simply began capturing blood. My shoe was soaked in blood, I didn't even really feel any ache.”
Frank defined that he appeared down at his foot which was “crimson as f***ing all hell” and he was “monitoring blood” whereas strolling.
“I appeared and I acquired a pin prick, I little pin gap simply squirting blood,” he continued. “Apparently, I've varicose veins. I acquired to be on crutches. Can't put weight on my foot the subsequent couple of days.”
The web persona informed followers he was going to “strive” to attend the New York Mets baseball recreation over the weekend. (Frank covers the Mets for Barstool.)
“I simply can't f***ing consider this s***,” he concluded the video.
— Frank Fleming (@NjTank99) August 14, 2025
In a separate X submit on Friday, August 15, Frank shared a photograph of the varicose veins in his foot. (According to Mayo Clinic, they're bulging, enlarged veins that almost all usually have an effect on the legs.) Followers might see the small gap he was referencing within the earlier video.
Frank's harm got here amid his ongoing strolling streak, which has been chronicled on social media. The Barstool persona has made it his purpose to stroll 20,000 steps a day as a part of his weight reduction journey.
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“I have to be on crutches the subsequent few days I cant put weight on my proper instep any recommendations tips on how to hold my streak alive,” he wrote by way of X on Thursday.”
Frank beforehand weighed over 500 kilos and has been sharing his ongoing well being journey with Barstool followers. In January 2024, Frank revealed that he weighed in at beneath 350 kilos for the primary time in 20 years.
“I've been making some good progress, I feel,” he mentioned in a video shared by way of X on the time. He additional defined his weight struggles, sharing that he hit 500 kilos in 2015 or 2016. He misplaced weight when hospitalized with an MRSA an infection round that very same time, however the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 derailed any progress he made.
“That could be a superb quantity — superb quantity,” he shared in the identical video, when coming in at 343.2 kilos.
After revealing the problem together with his foot on Thursday, Frank promised followers that he would attempt to hold the strolling streak alive.
“I'm going to do my finest to maintain this streak going,” he mentioned. “I might not be getting my 20,000 steps over the subsequent few days, however I'm going to do my finest to stroll with these crutches.”
